We are delighted to invite you to our Coastal Community and Creative Health (CC&CH) workshop. This free session is open to all project team members, project partners, voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations, creative sector practitioners (e.g., community artists), and those working in health, social care and academia.
Accountability
Accountability is a difficult thing to define let alone practice. But still it is a common cry of those frustrated with a slow pace of change or the seeming disinterest of parties with the most power.
Accountability is particularly difficult to pin down for collaborative or community outcomes, arguably where the need for good accountability is greatest.
It is difficult to hold someone accountable for an outcome they couldn’t control. Yet, the outcomes that we care most about in our communities are those that no single person or institution or agency could wholly own or control.
It is difficult to hold someone accountable for not doing the thing that we didn’t know needed to be done at the point we made them accountable. Yet, wicked problems arise in complex systems where not only are problems hard to analyse, they also keep changing.
In this workshop, we’ll use a system-change method to think about accountability at its best rather than analyse it at its worst, and from that vision, identify the future-focused actions each of us could take to amplify accountability for the outcomes that matter to us most.
Facilitator
Dr Amanda Woolley is a leadership coach, facilitator, and systems consultant with extensive experience supporting individuals, teams, and partnerships to work well together in complex contexts. With a background in health and care and a PhD in the psychology of decision making, her expertise spans partnership development, collaboration, and transformation. Amanda has worked across organisational and professional boundaries to help groups clarify objectives, build constructive relationships, and navigate change in ways that enable meaningful progress.
Who Should Attend?
This session is ideal for VCSE organisations, community artists, local authority representatives, and professionals in health and social care who are keen to explore new approaches to working in complex systems and accountability.